July 15, 2002
Bookmarklets

If you have logged in, you've probably noticed the Set Up Bookmarklets option in the Main Menu. This is a great tool if you want to post links to websites that you find. Check the options for the bookmarklet (you can leave trackback and ping unchecked) and click Create. The next page gives you a link that you can drag onto the menu bar or favorites in your browser. Then you can open that wherever you are on the web, to create an entry based on the current page. It comes up with html for the link in the main entry text. The name of the site is preset to be the words that a reader would click on. Carefully replace those with your own choice of words, write around it, and you've got a nice linked entry. Try it! If it gets messed up I will do my best to clean it up. Or try it again - I can delete obvious duplicate entries.

Posted by Dave at July 15, 2002 04:33 PM